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Technical Skills

Project Management
Scientific Writing
Microscopy
Immunofluorescence
Cell culture
Bio-image analysis
Biostatistics
R
Python
Bash
MATLAB

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Last updated on 2022-05-13.

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Juan C. Sanchez-Arias, MD, PhD

Trained as medical doctor and neuroscientist, I’m currently investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cardiac arrythmias and seizures associated with a novel genetic variant in an ion channel adapter protein combining model organism research, clinical genetics and computational biology.

Education

Doctoral of Philosophy in Neuroscience

University of Victoria - Division of Medical Sciences

Victoria, BC, Canada

2020 - 2015

  • Dissertation: Pannexin 1 regulates dendritic spine formation.

Doctor of Medicine (Medico y Cirujano)

Universidad del Valle - School of Medicine

Cali, Valle, Colombia

2014 - 2007

  • Pre-Diploma Rotatory Internship: Hospital Universitario del Valle ESE - Universidad del Valle. Cali, Valle. Colombia.
  • Professional elective: Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care. Department of Neurosurgery. Hospital Universitario del Valle ESE - Universidad del Valle. Cali, Valle. Colombia.
  • Observership: Functional Neurosurgery. Department of Neurosurgery. University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. USA. Supervisor: Dr. Konstantin Slavin.

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow - Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Awardee

Division of Medical Sciences

University of Victoria

Current - 2020

  • Area of study: Inherited arrhythmias, medical genetics, bioinformatics, ion channel biology, calcium homeostasis in cardiomyocytes.
  • Roles: Project and data management, research execution, presentation of results, and grant and research writing.
  • Techniques: Analyzed transcriptomics datasets using R and bioconductor tools (DESeq2, oligo, limma).
  • Queried and visualized protien-protein interaction networks using BioGRID, STRING, and mentha APIs, R, and Cytoscape (BinGO, GeneMania).
  • Visualized embryonic and adult mouse heart sections using immunohistochemistry and confoal microscopy.

Graduate Research Assistant

Division of Medical Sciences

Univesity of Victoria

2020 - 2015

  • Area of study: Ion and metabolite channels, developmental neurobiology, channel trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics, neural stem cells, advanced microscopy.
  • Roles: Project and data management, research execution, presentation of results, and grant and research writing.
  • Techniques: Developed and optimized methods to visualize excitatory synapses in cultured neurons (cytoskeleton immunocytochemistry, live cell imaging, super-resolution microscopy)
  • Applied MATLAB tools to analyze calcium imaging data from cultured neuronal networks.

Research Medical Intern

Centro de Estudios Cerebrales

Universidad del Valle

2014 - 2013

  • Area of study: functional neuroanatomy, cerebral cortex organization, traumatic brain injury, stroke, neuroprotection.
  • Roles: Support and execution of experimental research on traumatic brain injury and ischemic stroke in rats.
  • Techniques: immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy of astrocytic and interneuron markers in rat brain sections.

Undergraduate Medical Researcher

School of Public Health

Universida del Valle

2011 - 2010

  • Area of study: Cardiovascular risk health, spinal cord injury, rehabilitation medicine, public health.
  • Roles: Project management, data management with Epi Info, research execution, grant and research writing, and presentation of results to staskeholders.
  • Supported clinical assessment of patients in the spinal cord injury clinic.